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Knowing Their Place - Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Knowing Their Place - Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete
or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century.
Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth
century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of
employing au pairs, mothers' helps, and cleaners. Lucy Delap tells
the story of lives and labour within twentieth century British
homes, from great houses to suburbs and slums, and charts the
interactions of servants and employers along with the intense
controversies and emotions they inspired.
Knowing Their Place examines the employment of men and migrant
workers, as well as the role of laughter and erotic desire in
shaping domestic service. The memory of domestic service and the
role of the past in shaping and mediating the present is examined
through heritage and televisual sources, from Upstairs, Downstairs
toThe 1900 House. Drawing from advice manuals, magazines, novels,
cinema, memoirs, feminist tracts, and photographs, this fascinating
book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of
Modern history, English literature, anthropology, cultural studies,
social geography, gender studies, and women's studies. It points to
new directions in cultural history through its engagement in
innovative areas such as the history of emotions and cultural
memory. Through its attention to the contemporary rise in the
employment of domestic workers, Knowing Their Place sets 'modern'
Britain in a new and compelling historical context.
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